National Republican., 1887-10-17

paid cash down IN thls chutch Tor religious
uses and Christian work during the nineteen
years Of my minstery," said the Rev. 7. Do
witt Talmoge, d. D., In answer to the misrep.
reservations that have been going through
some Of the religious papers depreciating the
work OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle. After Civ
ing out the hymn ''-
"our God, our help in ages past,
our hope for years TO COME"
DIR. Talmage preached q sermon, the subject
of which was, Forbidden Honey" the text
being Samuel xiv, 49, II did bat taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that was in my
hand, and, 10, I must die" DR.. Talmage said:
The honey bee is most ingenious architect,
n Christopher Wren among in.ects, a peometer
drawing hexagons and pentagons, freebooter
robbinR the fields of pollen and aroma, won
drous creature OF God whose biography, writ
ten by Huber and swammordam, is an en-
chantment Tor any lover OF nature. Virgil Gel.
ebrated the bee In his fable Of Ariste1s, and
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and 81. John used the
delicaoies of bee manufacture rs Bioie SYM
bol. miracle Of formation is the bee; five
eyes, two tongues, the ou er having a sheath Of
protection hairs on oil sides of It's tiny body TO
Drush up tne Particles OF flo Sers It's hisnt 10
straight that all the world knows Of the bee
line. The honeycomb Is a palace such as no
one but God could plan and the honey bee
construct; Its cells sometimes dormtory and
sometimes u storehouse and sometimes ceme-
tery. These winged toileis first make eight
strips OF wax aud by their antennP, which are
to them hammer and chisel and square
and plumb lire fashion them for use. Two
and TWO these workers sh pc the wall. II an
accident happen they put up outtresses or
extra beams 10 remedy the damage. When
about the year 1776 IN insect, before unknown,
In the night time attacked the bee hives all
over Europe, and the men wno owned them
were In vain trying topian something to keep
out the invader that was the terror Of the bee.
where the bees had arranged for tueir own
protection, and built before their honcycombs
which the bees might 60 to and iro, but not
large enough to admit the winged combatant,
called the SPHINX Atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the bees
ts divinely directedl The mother bee starts
for new home and because of this the other
bets Of the hive let into all excitement which
ara they must die unless they leave their
heat d apartments, aud they fol ow the mother
pee and alight on The branch of a tree, and
clirg 10 each other, and hold on until COM
mi tee Of two or three have explored the re-
gion and found the hollow of a tree or rock
not lar OIL from stream of water, and they
matte industries, ana give themselves to the
manufacture OF the sacharine edible. But
who can tell the chemistry of that mixture OF
ard part oft the life Of the feldsa ,''
Plenty OF this luscious product was hanging
In the woods OF Bethayen during the time OF
suit OF an enemy that by Gods command must
be eSterminated. The soldiery were positively
forbidden to stop TO eat anything until the
work was done. If they disobeyed they were
aceursed., Coming through the. woods they
found place where the bees had been busy
great honey mandatory. Honey gathered
flowed upon the ground In great profusion of
sweetness. AL the army obeyed orders and
touched itnot save Jonathan, and he. not know.
ing the military order about abstinence, dipped
the end Of stick he had In his hand into the
canded liquid, and as, yellow and brown and
tempting, It gowed on the end of the stick he
n n n ha Ir,lx
meht fell upon him. and but for special inter-
yention he would have been slain. In my text
Jonathan announces his awful mlstake-'I
did but taste a little honey with the end ofthe
rod that was in my hand and, 10, ! must die"
Alas, what mutitudes of people In all ages
have been: damaged by forbidden honey, by
tractive, but damaging and destructive.
Literature, fascinating tut deathtul,. comes
IN shs 5 Where one good honest
dred made up of rhetorical trash consumed
with ayidily. When the boy on the cars comes
the titles ana notice that niue out of ten of tn.
books are uepieIing and injurious. ALI the way
fiom New York to Chicago or New Orleans no.
tice that objectionable books dominate. Taste
for pure literature is poisoned by this scum of
the publishing house. Every book In which
sin triumphs over virtue or in which a glamour
is thrown over dissipation or which leaves you
at Its last line with less respect for the mar
ringe institution and less adherence for the
paramour is a depression of your own moral
tive and the plot dramatic and startling aud
the style of writing sweet as the honey that
Jonathan dipped up with his rod but your best
interests forbid IT, your moral safety forbids 1t,
your God forbids It, and one taste of II may
lead to such bad results that you may have to
say at the close OF the experiment or at the
close OF a misimproved lifetime: II did but
taste little honey with the rod that was in
my hand, and lol must die"
Corrupt literature Is doing more to day for
the disruption OF domestic life than any other
cause. Elopementn, marital intrigues, sly
correspondence, fictitious names given at post
office windows, clandestine meetings in parks,
and at ferry gates and In hotel parlors and
conjugal perjuries are among the damnable
results. When woman. young or old. gets
her head thoroughly stuffed with the modern
Iovel she is in appalling peril But some one
VIII say: "The heroes are so adroitlv knavsh,
and the persons 50 bewitchingly untrue, and
the turn of the story.so exquisite, and all the
My brother, my sister, you can find styles of
literature just as charming that will elevate
and purify and enn9ble and Christianize white
honey. 1here Is wealth of good books
coming forth from our publishing houses that
Leaves No excuse tor me choice OF that which Is
intelligent men or women, and ask for O list of
books that will be strengthening to your men
a ahS H FRA ie SO oFt ana
you cannot afford to I'LL up with husks, and
cinders, and debris. In the interslices of busi-
onss b IN b naa which
that young woman is filling her mind with an
intelligence that will yet either make her the
her an independence Of character that viii
qualify her to build her own home aud main
tain It In q happiness that requires no aug
nm men,ation from m any OF the rousher sex That
literary and moral Improvement OF the spare
ten minutes here or there in every day, rise
ter, and Influence above the ionieers who read
nothing, or read that which bedwars. See all
the forests of good American literature dripping
that have In them the fiery bees which will sting
with all eternal poison while you taste It? One
book may for you or me decide everything for
with me when in Wynkoop's book store, Syra-
dsy up book nS called 1.-The
not satisfied until M had had % purchased ap all T his
works, at that time expensive beyond an easy
capacity TO own them, and what a heaven /
Architecture" and his "Stones Of Venice" II
is impossible for me to describe. except by say
ing that " gave me rapture for good books
moral books that will last me while my i'm
mortal soul lasts. All around the church and
the world today there are busy hives of intel
from whose pens drip a distillation which is
the very nectar OF heaven, and why win you
thrust your rod Of inguiisityeness into the
Stimulating LIQUIDS also come into the cate.
GoIy OF ten npta,ions delicious but deathful.
You say: II cannot bear the taste of intoxica-
ting liquor, and how any man can like II is to
me an amazement." Well then, IL Is no credit
70 you that yon do not take IT, Do not brag
about your total abstinence, because 1t is not
from any principle that you reject alcoholism,
but Tor me same reason that you reject certaa
styles OF food-you simply don't like the taste
OF them. But multtudes of people have a nat.
uial fondness for all kinds Of intOxicant. They
like II so much that 1t makes them smack their
lips to lOok at II, They are dyspeptic, and thew
take 1t to aid digestion, or they are annoyed by
insomnia, and they take 1t to produce sleep or
they are troubled, and they take IL to make
them 0blvious, or they feel good and they must
celebrate their hilarity. They begin with
mint lulep sucked through two straws on the
Long Branch piazza and end in the ditch TAX.